France: A scene at Paris St Lazare station showing class BB27300 electric locomotives on VB2N double deck stock, class Z6400 EMUs and class Z50000 EMUs. Recorded 30th March 2018.
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The Gare Saint-Lazare (St Lazarus Station), officially Paris-Saint-Lazare, is one of the six large terminus railway stations of Paris. It is the second busiest station in Paris, after the Gare du Nord. It handles 275,000 passengers each day. The station was designed by architect Juste Lisch, and the maître de l'oeuvre (general contractor) was Eugene Flachat.
The first station at St Lazare was 200 m north-west of its current position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles. The station was opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France) on 24 August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to Le Pecq. In 1843 St-Lazare was the terminus for three lines; by 1900 this number had tripled. The station had 14 platforms in 1854 after several enlargements, and now has 27 platforms sorted in six destination groups.
On 27 April 1924 the inner suburban lines were electrified with 750 V third rail. The same lines were re-electrified at 25 kV overhead wires in the 1960s.
On 21 March 2012, a new three-level shopping mall with 80 shops opened inside the passenger hall.
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The SNCF Class BB 27300 is an electric locomotive. There are 67 BB 27300 locomotives, built as part of the Prima range by Alstom. The first BB 27300 were delivered starting in 2006. Painted in the blue and white livery of Transilien, the brand name for the SNCF network around Paris, these locomotives are the passenger equivalent of the freight-only SNCF Class BB 27000 and are equipped for push-pull operation on suburban passenger services in the Île-de-France region around Paris, working with refurbished VB2N double-deck carriages.
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The SNCF Class Z 6400 electric multiple units were built by Alsthom/Carel et Fouché between 1976-1979. Seventy-five of these 4-car units are used on suburban service in the west of Paris, operating mainly on the Transilien Line L from Paris Gare Saint-Lazare. The 4-car units are most often used as 8-car sets. They are being replaced by the Class Z 50000 units with the complete withdrawal scheduled for 2021.
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The VB2N (voiture de banlieue à 2 niveaux, "two-deck suburban car") is a double-deck passenger car used on Transilien suburban rail services in the Île-de-France region of France.
The coaches, built from 1974, are the successors of the Chemins de Fer de l'État's 1933 built Voiture État à 2 étages. They are used on Gare Saint-Lazare network and Gare Montparnasse network. They were also used between Gare de l'Est and Gare de Tournan until the RER E was built and Gare du Nord network until the arrival of the Z 50000 who replaced them by the end of 2012.
From the late 2006-early 2007, VB2Ns are pushed/pulled by new SNCF Class BB 27300 electric locomotives (Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare Montparnasse networks), and from 2012, by new SNCF Class BB 7600 (fr) (Gare Montparnasse network only). They are also pushed/pulled by SNCF Class BB 17000 on Gare Saint-Lazare networks.
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The SNCF Z 50000 is an electric multiple unit train built by Bombardier Transportation (manufacturer's designation SPACIUM 3.O6) for the French rail operator SNCF, for use under Transilien operations in the Île-de-France.
It is commonly called ‘Francilien’, and sometimes ‘NAT’ (for French: «Nouvelle Automotrice Transilien», which was its project name).
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